Jude Chehab is a Lebanese American filmmaker whose cinematic interests have drawn her to the exploration of the esoteric, the spiritual, and the unspoken. A richly layered visual and intimate personal shooting style developed under the mentorship of Abbas Kiarostami’s final student group, Jude has been credited in collaborations with the BBC, Hot Docs, Refinery29, and Oxfam. She has worked as a director of photography internationally, on films in Somalia, Sudan, and Pakistan, and was an associate producer on Sesame Street’s show, Ahlan Simsim, for Syrian refugees. Q, her first feature documentary was named one of the best documentaries of 2023 by Vogue Magazine. It was supported by: IDA, ITVS, TFI, and the Sundance Institute and won the Albert Maysles Award for Best New Documentary Director at Tribeca and the Grand Jury Award for Best First Feature at Sheffield DocFest. She is part of DOCNYC’s ’40 under 40′ list and Filmmaker Magazine named her one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film.